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Cather sees beyond prejudices of her generation in `My Antonia'.

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From: Chicago Tribune (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune NewsService)
Date: 20021002
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Cather sees beyond the prejudices of her generation

Prejudices and beyond

DePaul class studies immigrant-theme writings from Upton Sinclair to Pat Buchanan, along with Cather's `My Antonia'

Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization" (Dunne Books). And he quoted a paragraph early in the book:

"The prognosis is grim. Between 2000 and 2050, world population will grow by more than three billion to over nine billion people, but this 50 percent increase in global population will come entirely in Asia, Africa and Latin America, as one ...

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